Our Speaker Today

Charlayne Hunter-Gault is a civil rights activist and journalist, known to many PBS viewers as a correspondent for the PBS NEWSHOUR (in its various incarnations). She was one of the first African-American students to enroll in the University of Georgia in 1961 and there she studied journalism. In her decades-long career, Hunter-Gault worked for the New York Times and NPR, as well as PBS, and received two Emmys and a Peabody for her reporting. In 2016, Charlayne Hunter-Gault delivered the commencement speech at the University of Richmond in Virginia. Enjoy this address from a celebrated, talented and learned member of the extended PBS family…